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Butte semi-weekly miner., 1887-03-30
SOUTH BUTTE NOTES.

j. p. Burns occupies the position Of clerk
at the Northwestern Hotel.
M. LIE Claire and wife arrived Friday from
Canada. and will make their home in South
Butte.
The Miners Lumber Co. received yester
day two car loads Of building paper The
lumber business is booming.
P. Costello, OF the Northwestern Hotel
has departed on q business trip to Victor
ia, B. G. He will return about April l.
No. 214, the engine which was so badly
used up short time ago in the Anaconda
yards, is now out OF the shops, good ai
new.
The Desjardine brothers invited quite
number of their French friends to social
dance at their new residence Friday even
ing in honor of their brother and sister,
who had just arrived from Canada.
Hugh Diamond, from the Butte Reduc.
tion Works, succeeds A. F. Gill as machin.
fist at the Montana Union shops. Mr.
Gill goes to Anaconda to take charge Of
the machine shops there, vice NJ F. Fisher
who will In future pull throttle on The
road.
One Of our citizens, bent on specua'
tlon, was about town Sunday morning
trying to buy up all the cigarettes in South
Butte at cents a package. He didn't
make many purchases, as our wide-awake
merchants were all posted rs to the rise
in the market.
The Montana Unions and the South
Butte Dudes played an interesting game at
the race track this afternoon. Some eN
cellent playing was done by both sides
TIE batting OF Baum, OF the Montana
Unions, and Pipes. Of the Dudes, was es
peciaIly worthy of mention. S. W. DAVIS (
old some very fine pitching The score 3
stood IL to Is in favor of the Dudes. &
Butte semi-weekly miner., 1887-03-30
JOURNALISTIC AMENITIES.

It is stated that Montana journals occa
sionally become very emphatic in their ar
enments with each other, aud refer tc
their contemporaries in very plain and
pointed terms. It seems, however, thai
Nebraska Journals ars not bit behind
their farther western brethren OF the quill
in the directness of undressed words. The
following, from the Omaha Republican ol
the I'd inst. is q specimen Of journalistic
amenities as they crop out in that city.
Under the caption. speaking OF Bugs"
the Republican says:
When a man has been in q community
lor twenty years, and is generally regarded
with loathing and contempt, there is some
reason for it. There must be something
excessively indecent in his makeup which
calls for such q gtneral judgment. We
drop this as general proposition.
Mr.. Edward Rosewater answers this gen.
eral description. A person can not assault
him, because he il without courage and will
not resent an assault. Nothing offensive
can be said about his character, because
anything which might be said has been
said time and again, and would be re-
parled as q chestnut. He is q moral i'm
pertinence, and he never had q character.
There is only one thing that is patent.
This is he is played out. In rounding up
his nasty career The Republican asserts q
certain pride which it would not express
on other occasions. But it feels that it
has done q service to the citizens of Omaha
which they should recognize. He may lie
and lie. This is the least able of intel
lectual amusements. But it has lost it's
force and value where he is concerned. The
new management that did not know the
streets has knocked him out with even
in matters of politics, as well as
it's steady growth of circulation. When
ever man of his race howls. there is a
eAk in the finances somewhere. This is
what is the matter with him now.
Men who have been here only few
months have better social position than
The editor of the Bee. Men who have been
1ere short time have no record of string
ny up one side of street whilea constable
vas on deck on the other. Men who have
,ut casually dropped in may get q slight
md incidental reputa tion for courage and
nanliness. This little scoundrel, whose |
physical smallness fits his moral abbrevie-
ion, is without a single instinct that be-
ongs to decent man with self respect, |
moral assertion and personal courage. He
D concentration of everything that's rep |
table person should not be.
To spit in his face would be flattery.
Butte semi-weekly miner., 1887-03-30
EXECUTORS SALE.

tae deca..aS mater of the estate of Peter Mcaa'
Notice is hereby given that in pursuance Of Of !
| uluer Issued out of the Probase Court OF el,s ~
1s n1w county. Montana Territory, made Oh j, II
aM Gay OF March, A. D. 1887, the und'r.igned \, ~
eAecutor OF the estate of Peter Mcmahon. ~ !.
ceaeed. will cell at priv te sale upon Term. 10
spprOven by said Court on THURSDAY, the - ~
o:y on March, A. 1887 between the houls,g,ihe M
sun Of .sid e. m; and the setting OF the sun q
gay OF within six months thereafter all the rgs n.
te, interest and estate of said deceased a. hi Nj
as OF MS DEATH or that said estate has sn.e n.,
acquired BY operation of law or otnelTtr e,r
sn;t ~ aAo 10 the following described propef"''
An undivided one fourth ca interest in anu
me Onlta Quartz Lode mining claim sll.Sn ,Sorr
t.nuependence Mining District, Silver Bo"'0'
y; Montana Territory. ,rdw
u, on9lv1ded one-fourth "a interest IL iIsap,n sa
LEV ias Mest End Little Darling Fraction iHu.a No.
uence Mining Dis rict, Silver Bow County, ~
~, g1%divided interest in and to the Little Rss ns
Jug quartz Lode mining claim situated ~ lnlunfr
Penaence Mining District, Silver Bow 'o'''
montana Territory. ,,ota
Undivided one-fourth "a interest in and d.ssns iss
M;a nna Quartz Lode mining claim, IndePeeountsns
Territory. .,r
Undivided Il interest in and to Curr!!, !!,og"sn gasln
Terr;tan1 ug mining claim, Silver Bow Counl!'"V
Undivided % of Granger (also called 9aosTir 2lor Nh
inas i"tz Lode mining claim, summit .ain ns Teri
tory. .r
Bios In writing will be received by saiu 'corf
W, W, ~ the Probate Court Room, IN .'' At sa
aouse In Butte City, Montana Territory! IN sbt q
.1 saMe prior to March oath, 1887, at p III Ii
snSi H which date said property will De s''' NJ
Conveyances at expense of purchasel, l,uoN
JAMES W. MCMAHhy.hOp
Executor of the estate of Peter McA''
Dated March Srd, 1887 N
Butte semi-weekly miner., 1887-03-30

sos to 10.75, bat in all cases for neal.
| by delivery, while $1o.5O has been iree'y
offered without finding any sellers. Ine
outside brands have been freely enereu
from $3.50 to 1915, but the sales nave
not exceeded 100000 pounds at New
York, and one lot was sold ~ low - W.
It seems palpable that casting BRANDS can
not maintain their price anywhere nearer
to that of Lake than one cent per pound
The export market continues to be strong
er than the domestic demand for masee'
and some 800 tons more have been sold on
the basis OF English prices. The cable
quotes steady market in London at 45S
7s Cd to E39 los.
Butte semi-weekly miner., 1887-03-30

Bradstreet's notes as an interesting fact
that Though there is prohibitory law in
Maine, the United States government de.
rives share OF it's revenue from the liquor
dealers OF the State. The fact has not es-
capped the attention of the Maine legisla.
iators, as is shown by the provision in the
liquor law just passed making the pay
ment OF United States tax prima facie
evidence OF the illegal sale OF liquors for the
reason that druggist is not required to
pay that tax for using liquors in CON-
pounding bona fide medicines. The new
law makes the penalty for the first con-
viction for y violation OF the act thirty
days imprisonment, as well as a fine, and
prohibits the sale OF cider for tippling pur-
poses."
Butte semi-weekly miner., 1887-03-30
SHERMAN ON LABOR.

Senator Sherman made q speech befor'
q meeting Of workingmen in Cincinnati last
Saturday evening. It followed. Of course
that in speaking to q roomfull OF hardy
sons of toll he could not we'll avoid refer
ring to the labor question. This he did il
truly artistic style, for John Sherman ii
an accomplished politician if he is nothing
else. He threw no new light upon thu
question for the Ohio. Senator was not
there to advance new theories concerning
the subject, nor to break new trails to 9
solution of the problem. He was address
ing workingmen, not q body OF political
economists, and so, after relieving himself
Of few antiquated platitudes. he left the
matter just where he found it. Here If
that portion OF the speech referred to.
Says Mr.. Sherman:
1.-The great question now to be solved is
how to divide the results of labor equita-
bly, between labor and capitalize laborer
who does the work and the capitalist who
furnishes the money. Labor and capital
are husband and wife: they cannot be di-
vorced. Some way should be devised to
adjust equitably the earnings of labor and
capital. This problem will be solved. The
Democratic party will not do it. They
would find = constitutional difficulty in
the way Immediately. It will be solved
some day; perhaps the working man will
solve it, but it will be in the Republican
party. The clearest heads and best minds
of the nation have come to the legislative
halls from the working classes"
Speaking OF labor organizations he said:
"You have the right to organize and be-
come knights et Labor. to discuss matters,
to exchange views, advance your interests
in every honorable way. You can get the
highest wages you can, but strikes are de-
testable and fatal to the purpose they are
sought to accomplish. Some better way
must be devised, but capital and laboring
men must solve that problem themselves
perhaps by arbitration, perhaps by CO.
operation"
It will be noticed that Mr.. Sherman made
three distinct propositions: First, that
,he labor question will be solved some day.
This must be regarded as an original idea
Ind brimfull of assurance and happiness to
= sorkingmen. Second, that it cannot be
'olved by the Democratic party. This
ettles that point-in the mind of Mr.. Sher-
nan and Third, that it will be solved by
Vorkingmen in the Republican party. This
3 taffy and adamantine cheek, a combina-
ion not wanting in the Sherman family.
This scientific treatment of the labor uues-
ion will of course command the admira-
ion OF the whole Republican party, but |
lis admission that Democrats are as hon
st as anybody else will be received with |
rowls of dissent by bis party press. They |
ave too long characterized Democrats as |
ascals to accept Mr.. Sherman's acknow-
'dgement as fact.
Butte semi-weekly miner., 1887-03-30
LAND FRAUDS.

In speaking of the refusal of Commission
er Sparks to pay the certificate OF one j Johr
Benson for alleged Government surveys
the San Francisco Examiner, after epdors
ing the action of the Commissioner, charges
| that the Federal Treasury has been robbed
OF many millions of dollars Trough the
medium of alleged land surveys in that
State alone. It says there are thousands
OF acres OF public lands in California which
have been reported to the department as
surveyed, and the money drawn for it, on
which q line has never been run or a stake
set.
1t is the same way in Nevada, Idaho.
Montana, Wyoming and New Mexico. Less
than year ago it was shown that a con-
tract surveyor in Wyoming had drawn
from the Treasury s811, 900 for work that
had never been done at all. The contract
surveys in Montana, extending over a Pc
Rod OF ten years, at an expense to the Gov
ernment OF $4,652, 900, are to-day in a
condition so confused and unintelligible
that nearly three-fifths of the ground will
have to be gone over again, and maps and
plats require to be made, at cost of per-
haps millions OF dollars. The condition of
the surveys in Oregon, Washington Terri
tory and New Mexico are in many cases be-
lieved to be equally fraudulent.
1t is we'll known that under preceding
administrations OF that Government, adds
that journal, "the public lands have been
subject to an almost universal piracy. Or
ganized schemes ofdspredation have sprung
up in every community, and nowhere have
they fourished more extensively than here
in California. No business in which the
Government and the people have an inter-
est has been SO thoroughly saturated with
villainy. wickedness and theft"
The conscientious public servant who
tries to erect barrier to this food offraud.
and to stay the hand of the land .grabber
and the contract corsair, should be an.
plauded and not condemned.
Butte semi-weekly miner., 1887-03-30

John swinton's paper of the goth inst
contains call by the Anarchists Defense
Fund Committee for money to save the
Chicago condemned Anarchists from the
gallows. Among the suggestive statements
the call contains is that il the Supreme
Court OF Illinois grant new trial it will
cost the defense not less than $4,000 to
conduct it, and that to meet that sum the
COMMITTEES has only $4,000 on hand. The
committee asserts the condemned men did
not have fair trial before and intimates it
will require about $500 to secure i'm.
partial justice to them if a new one be
granted. All OF which leads one to the con-
clusion that Chicago jurors can be bought
cheap for cash.
Butte semi-weekly miner., 1887-03-30
STATE RIGHTS.

In his Nashville speech the smooth and oil
Ohio senator incidentally touched upo1
the question of State rights but he left oil
just where he commenced, leaving his hear
ers in doubt as to whether he held to th,
popular Southern view concerning tn,
rights OF the States or whether be still ad
hered to his old opinion that States wert
subordinate to Federal authority. Per
haps if he had been speaking at a towr
meeting in Ohio he would be more explicit
His meaning as wired is susceptible of the
two constructions. Upon that point his
speech is very unsatisfactory.
Quite different is the language of Mr.. Car.
lisle in giving his idea, or rather the Demo.
cratic idea OF State rights. He recently
said: "The Democratic party does not
sanction secession or nulliAcation, but by
the constitutional doctrine of State rights
the Democratic party stands to-day as it
always has stood, and, as trust, it always
will stand"
Mr.. Carlisle is right. The Democratic
party stands to-day as it has always stood
upon that question. While not believing
in notification or secession it does not be-
lieve, as Mr.. Sherman says, that 1.-THE germ
OF the controversy was fought out during
the war" The war settled but one point
and that is that the South was not able to
whip the North. 1t settled no principle in
volved in the question of State rights.
Notwithstanding Mr.. Sherman's sophlst-
ry concerning this vital question the desir-
ability OF having party which will resist
attempts to centralize the government aud
which always will be found opposed to the
destruction of the supremacy OF the states
within the constitutional limitations needs
no argument to demonstrate. Under the
states every right which the American
holds dear is guaranteed to him. The
states form an imperishable barrier to an
archy, and in themselves are sufficient to
preserve liberty, law and order, whether
the Federal Government survives or per.
ishes. To destroy or interrupt the latter
is to make no appreciable difference with
the states, which would go on as before
and be capable of devising new system or
revivlng the old one. But to destroy the
states would be to destroy the entire fab
ric and leave to the people no road to an
other rep bile such as the fathers fash. |
oned, except through blood and destruc-
ton. The preservation Of the states in |
their integrity is also the. best guaranty of |
The preservation of the Union, for under
hem the people OF each may regulate their
own domestic affairs to suit themselves,
'ubject only to the constitution, while tax
ng advantage OF the great benefits to be
derived from the Union with reference to
he regulation of commerce and defense
against the world.
Butte semi-weekly miner., 1887-03-30

Speaking OF Mr.. Blaine's chances for fhe
presidency, writer in the Philadelphia
American hits the hail squarely On the
head when he says: "We say frankly, and
we know that we are speaking for many
Republicans when we say that it would be
most desperately pertinent, in view of the
consequence OF failure, to renominate Mr..
Blaine. He has had his candidacy. He was
Loyalty supported by every element that
with the right or the opportunity to
consider the second proposal of his name
That he failed is not his fault, but his mis-
fortune. He cannot justly ask them to
enter with him again on so perilous a ven
ture"
Butte semi-weekly miner., 1887-03-30

Upon the petition of two hundred free
holders OF Butte the City Council has called
an election for the purpose of voting on
the proposition for the reincorporation of
the city under the new Incorporation act.
The council will doubtless procure and
cause to be published certified COPY of
the act before the time called for the elec-
ton. The law is very lengthy one, con-
tanning 1877 sections, the principal features
of which have been given in The MINER. A
further acquaintance with it's provisions
will be called for by electora Of the city and
their publication should be Or
dered a. soon 90 possible.
Butte semi-weekly miner., 1887-03-30

As authority upon mining deals the In
ter-Mountain has proven lamentab bly, unre-
liable. 1t should hereafter keepsilent upon
matters affecting the mining interests of
Butte and vicinity and confine it's screeds
to stereotyped abuse Of Kennedy, Sedgwick
Sparks, Manning, Cleveland and the ad-
ministration. These displays of it's childish
spleen and ignorance can do no harm as no
one reads them. But when it branches off
into discussion OF thegraver and more i'm
portant matter OF mining deals it might
possibility do harm among the few are yet
unacquainted with the unreliability OF that
journal.
Butte semi-weekly miner., 1887-03-30

President Cleveland has signified his in.
tention of making Assistant Secretary ol
the Treasury Fairchild the successor oi
Manning. If we mistake not Mr.. Fairchild
holds more liberal views concerning silver
than did Sherman, Window, Mccullough,
Manning and others who have been at the
head OF the treasury department during
the past twenty years. 1t would be an
agreeable change to have friend Of silver
handling the treasury portfolio.
Butte semi-weekly miner., 1887-03-30

The complimentary benefit rendered to
Mr.. A. NJ. Walker of the pavilion by the
last and fancy roller skaters of the city Is
but just tribute to very worthy gentle
man. Mr.. Walker has for years industri-
ously and successfully 1abored for the
health and enjoyment of his patrons, and
this recognition upon their part OF the in
estimable value OF his services to them is
neat. delicate and timely. It is predicted
the benefit will be rousing one,
Butte semi-weekly miner., 1887-03-30

A recent cablegram to the New Yorl
Times says: "The mental peculiarities o
the Queen are becoming general topic ol
conversation, and the opinion that she is
demented is freely expressed now in quart
ers where it would have been secuted a
year ago. Her sudden freak for having a
circus and theatrical performance given for
her solitary delectation naturally suggests
the mania OF the late King Louis of Ba-
varia"
Butte semi-weekly miner., 1887-03-30

1t is reasonable to suppose that the exc
cution tf Harding will serve to deter des.
perate men from going a cunning for stage
drivers. The shooting Of poor Ferguson was
a most distardly crime, without extenna-
ton viewed from every possible standpoint.
1t was cold, unprovoked murder OF an in.
nocent, harmless man, who had done his as
sailant no injury whatever. Harding had
an impartial trial, and was defended by
vigilant, able counsel who after bis convic-
tion and sentence exhausted every resource
of the law to save him. Stern Justice,
however, demanded his life and he met the
doom of the murderer.
Butte semi-weekly miner., 1887-03-30

The Charleston News and Courier judges
from the way the political wind is blowing
now, that Grover Cleveland and John Sher-
man will be the candidates of the Demo.
cratic and Republican parties respectively
in the next national election. It SAYS
Thurman is too old. Bayard has been
shelved, and besides, none Of the gentlemen
named can command the same support.
either in or out of the convention, that
will come to Cleveland. The Democratic
campaign cry will therefore be: "Well done,
thou good and faithful servant, serve US an
other term"
Butte semi-weekly miner., 1887-03-30

Young Vallsndigham, of Ohio, has caused
his friends to bewail and his enemies to
shout forglee by abandoning the Dem ocratie
party and announcing that he will here.
after be a John Sherman Republican. 1t
will be very difficult for Ohio Democrats to
support Sherman if he is to have in his train
this son OF q man who was banished for
disloyalty. The association throws some
suspicion on the loyalty of John himself,
Notwithstanding his Nashville speech. tits
now in order for some near relative OF jeff
Davis to come out for Blaine.
Butte semi-weekly miner., 1887-03-30

The women in the case'' OF the corrupt
New York aldermen does not figure in the
usual light. She is Kate Metz by name,
and her connection with the bribetakers
amounts only to seeing them at what was
supposed to be secret conclave where the
money was divided. She recognizes all
who participated in this meeting, and when
on the stand she cannot be browbeaten or
shaken in the smallest degree by the de-
fendant's attorneys.
Butte semi-weekly miner., 1887-03-30
JOHN SHERMAN,S SPEECH.

When in Florida the other day John
Sherman aaid his visit in the South had nc
connection whatever with politics, that he
wanted to keep the subject out of his head
couple of weeks and that he should not
open his mouth about it unit. he reached
Nashville he left the impression upon the
unthinking portion of the public that his
tour through the Gulf and lower Mississip-
pi states was purely one OF rest and recre.
alton. But there were those who knew the
wiley Ohio Senator better. They correctly
surmised that the object OF his junketing
was to gather pointers and to feel the
pulse OF Southern Republicans as to their
choice OF a candidate for the Presidency.
He has friends in the South and Mr.. Sher.
man applied to them for the information
wanted. Evidently he was satisfied for when
he reached Nashville he was prepared to
fly his kite in good shape. He knew to
whom he was speaking, and that his words
would reach every prominent newspaper in
the United States before the weary eyes OF
the night editor closed in Sleep
John Sherman's speech is a bid for the
Southern Republican delegate vote in the
National Convention of that party next
year. Read between lines he says: "Col-
ored men OF the South! 1 come among
you as a Republican candidate for the
Presidency Of these United States. am
your friend, and should be elected to the
chief magistracy Of this land my first aim
will be to clothe you with the full rights
and privileges OF freemen, and confer upon
the humblest among you that protection
guaranteed by the constitution of the
country. Iwant your support, and ask
that you send delegates to the next Nat |
ional Republican Convention who will
vote first, last and all the time for John
Sherman as the Republican candidate for
the Presidency"
The speech smacks of the demaposue.
for none but a demagogue would assert at
this late day that methods are employed
in tho South by which the colored people
are deprived OF free and unfettered fran
chise. The ballot is as free in Tennessee as
il is in the state of Ohio, and in no state
In the South are the colored voters intimi.
lated at the polls as are the white slaves
oi the great manufacturing corporations of
,he North. This fact is patent to all OBJ
'srving reading. thinking men. While Mr..
Sherman only slightly waved the tail end
II the bloody shirt he was profuse in his
applications OF mud to the Democracy OF
he South. As whole the speech will be
egerded - failure. Il
Butte semi-weekly miner., 1887-03-30

Ohio is going ahead, in accordance with a
recent legislative enactment, to teach
scientific temperance" in the public
schools. This is q good scheme and the
field OF usefulness of it's public schools
might be further enlarged by teaching sci
entlfic honesty, scientific mind-your-own.
business and a few other virtues which are
not commonly understood in their naked